TODD SEAVEY
author of Libertarianism for Beginners and writer of/speaker about many other things

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Left Denounces Other Leftists as White Male “Bro-gressives”

Our
world is an increasingly complex and stupid one: Salon and some other pro-Obama
operations have decided to smear those among their fellow leftists who support
Rand Paul's anti-drones position by falsely implying that the supporters do so because they are white and male.

They've
even coined the term "bro-gressives" to describe those Paul
supporters (which I guess is supposed to work a bit like "Oreo" --
authentic progressives presumably knowing enough to avoid being male). Who
would have foreseen (say, thirty years ago) that the day would come when being
a leftist who is opposed to an aspect of militarism gets you marginalized for being a white male?